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Here at IBTL we rely on your generosity to continue running. To thank anyone who donates to us, we offer a reward in the form of Plus+ Membership. This grants you extra features that regular members do not have. To find out more about the...
Hi, From this date on (11/04/09) we would like to offer a reward system for referrals. For every user who gives your name as a referral you will receive 1 week of Plus+ Membership. In addition, for every user who gives your name as a...
Just a general post to remind people of the 'restricted access' forums. We have seperate gender forums for both guys and girls - please do apply for the appropiate group so you gain access to the forum! We also have an over 18's adult forum,...
Our host has emailed me to inform me off some essential maintenance that will be occurring tomorrow: Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 6.00 am - 8.00 am (GMT + 1.00) Please be aware that the forum will be unavailable at this time.
Based on the ideas suggested by Conor and Graeme, we are currently trialling 2 new forums. These are: Top 5 Anonymous I think their names speak for themselves, but see the forum descriptions for more details.
We currently have a few competitions running that you may wish to enter. World Cup Competition - Click here to enter. Photography competition (ends tomorrow!) - Click here to enter. A cooking competition will also be announced soon, and...
This forum is now open, see this thread for more information: http://www.inbeforethelock.com/showthread.php/14250-Using-This-Forum
New Moderators! I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce to you, our new forum Moderators: Justin and Brad Justin and Brad both made great team applications and really showed us their passion and commitment for the community. It...
APPS NOW CLOSED In relation to recent discussions with regards to bringing the forum forward and making a few changes we have decided to add to our team. If your interested then we're looking to hear from you. We're hoping to recieve...
As your aware - when we upgraded to VB4 we lost the function to search out 'liked' posts. As part of a work around, everytime somebody now hits 'like' on your post this will send a positive rep to you (Value is currently set to just '1' - so...
In celebration of IBTL's first year we've halved the price of 1 month and 3 month Plus+ subscriptions for a limited time during our birthday weekend. We've also added 3 new features for Plus+ members A chatbox on the forum homepage Name...
Plus members can now change their own username without the need to PM an admin. To do this go to "edit profile" inside of UserCP. You can only change your name once every 21 days (May be revised), admins wont change names for you so make sure...
Just a reminder that the clocks here go forward at 1am by 1 hour. If the forum time breaks again and doesn't change, this is to say I'm passing all responsibility to Dave to fix it :happy:
Hello there, We have recently made vast changes to our site terms, privacy policy and rules - Please ensure you read these at http://www.inbeforethelock.com/privacy.php http://www.inbeforethelock.com/rules.php By continuing to use the site...
May we remind our users that we only fully delete user accounts in exceptional circumstances. The details of this are outlined in our rules (http://www.inbeforethelock.com/rules.php) In the past we have chosen to fully remove user accounts and...
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Yes, that's right! To celebrate Adams grand forum return after a long period of absence we're celebrating in style by running a 1 week FREE Plus+ promotion. So don't miss out - grab your FREE Plus+ today from the Group Memberships in your...
After upgrading the forum tonight the skin has a big bug with the nav bar so for the meantime we have reverted to the default skin. If the issue can't be fixed by tomorrow I'll downgrade back so we can use the old skin till we can work it out. ...
Nice dress - lets see how it looks on my bedroom floor....... Are you tired? Cause you've been running through my mind all night... Quit the cheese - this valentines day let Cupid do the work for you! Like previous years, the Cupid account...
Hey, We have recently completed work on a new Beta skin designed just for Smart phones (Especially as a large proportion of mobile traffic comes from Blackberrys, iPhones and so on). Theres still some bugs, but you should find it easier to...
SEE UPDATE POST BELOW Just to reiterate whats always been said for all to read: Double posting on this forum has never been allowed - we used to warn for this and use naughty membership as appropriate. Forum staff are exempt from this rule,...
Hey, We've had a bit of a reshuffle of some of the forums. Included in this is a new forum just for films, separate from the rest of the entertainment forum. Patton will be running a weekly 'Film Club', which involves a discussion thread for a...
Hi, I have been keeping a very simple budget table over the year just to keep track of what I'm spending. I figured I'd upload this for you all to see, just to keep you aware and so you know I'm not exploiting you all and getting rich or anything...
As you may be aware, when IBTL moved hosts we had to alter our domain to .co.uk to ensure of minimum downtime to the site. The intention has always been to return to the .com domain, however due to various reasons this wasn't possible (The .com...
The whole IBTL team would like to wish everybody a good night, and a very happy new year :)
Good news! The 'Likes' button is now back, so feel free to hit the 'Like' button when you see a post that makes you smile or you see one that you find helpful. In line with this - only plus+ users can now see which user repped them. Note:...
The arcade is back - sadly the scores were lost in transition (Blame Mark, honestly) as were all the games, so I've spent the afternoon uploading a load of games. By way of testing - the arcade is free to all users until the 10th Jan at which...
The entire IBTL team would like to take this opportunity to wish everybody a very merry christmas and a prosperous new year - and thank you all for continuing to support IBTL in the past 8/9 months :)
Hey, The majority of users to IBTL use either firefox or safari - please do ensure that these are the latest versions to ensure full compatibility with the site, those using chrome or safari may currently experience one or two bugs which are...
Due to popular demand, the bringing back of IBTL Mobile was added to the top of the list and i'm pleased to announce that its back in its old form :) The mobile style will eventual receive a brand new look but for now its functional. The only way...
Please see this blog: http://www.inbeforethelock.com/entry.php/2-VB4-Upgrade for information Apologies for the downtime.
Yo, As you know - we've been working for sometime on moving the forum to VB4, ST has already done this as you may have seen, however our main focus was on ensuring we install something that is stable enough to run here on an active live site and...
Hey There, You may remember this thread: http://www.inbeforethelock.com/community-discussion/11541-vbulletin-4-a.html In the end we decided to upgrade to the full 'suite' package which you can see in action here: ...
Happy Thanksgiving to our American users :) And a very late one to you Canadians :angel:
We're trying to actively encourage our users to place their threads in the appropiate forums, yet we're still getting some threads that are posted in the wrong place, especially the off-topic forum. The off-topic forum is simply for 'idle chat'...
Hey guys, Looking for some help with a skin design for a future forum upgrade. If anyone is interested - drop me a PM. Naturally, skills are required so don't take the piss. - Adam
As you will have noticed, we've put together a halloween skinned theme, to get things in the mood. We hope you like it! We are also holding a free Plus+ trial for one week. To benifit from this, click here. This trial ends on the 1st November...
Todays LOL of the day is proudly awarded to Jasmine for the below post inside of one of our news and current affairs thread. See this thread for more information:...
I just noticed that it wasn't working before. I've fixed it now, so if you did by any chance submit anything there, please resubmit it and I'll get back to you. I doubt any of you did, but you never know! ...
Hi Guys! I'd just like to remind you all of our Community Rules but more specifically, rule 3.1 where we state that: I wouldn't like to think any one of our users (of whatever nationality and race) felt victimised during their time on the...
In order to boost some activity back into the arcade, I've reset all the scores, and also made the arcade available to registered members. This will last for one week before it becomes plus+ only again, so make the most of it! I know some people...
Hey all, We've decided to give embedded videos a bit of pre-autumnal sprucing up. What's new? - Updated YouTube and Vimeo video codes, with 16:9 aspect ratio. - All new Facebook and CollegeHumor video embedding.
So the competition is now over!! Hopefully you'll all made some cool threads and helped us increase our activity. From looking at our Average Daily Post Count (ADP) we found that when people make threads people reply and thus it generates us more...
It's my great pleasure to introduce to you our new members to the User Support Team. Alex Cool Patton The three of many individuals were chosen based on their great applications, further questioning and ideas for forum regeneration. They...
Hey, Recently due to the amount of animated signatures in use, page loading times have been slower in some threads with multiple posts by those with these signatures. As much as I would love to let you put whatever you want in your signatures, I...
A big congratulations is going out to Gary who has been promoted from the User Support team to the Design and Development team. Gary will now be working along side Neil and Karl to produce our new skins and graphics to make sure that...
NOW CLOSED Hey! Interested in joining our team? Now is your chance! Recently we renamed the 'mod team' to 'user support' - this better reflects the fact that the team has more responsibilities than just simple moderation. The team is the...
Plus+ members can now experience ad free browsing at long last :) To find out the other features of plus go to http://www.inbeforethelock.com/payments.php
In the last few weeks we have been working on a brand new skin for the forum. This isn't just a simple recolour like you've had before, but brand new and totally new. It has taken a lot of custom work due to the nature of our forum and all the...
As you may have noticed - everybody has now been removed from both the gender forums and the adult forum, this is to ensure we only have active users within these groups. Please feel free to re-apply for both groups. However; please ensure that...
Just Say... THANKS! There's now a new feature on InBeforeTheLock that will allow you to actually thank a member when they make a constructive and well, helpful post!! The "Thanks!" button is located on the bottom right of every post. So...
The site will experience a maintenance window today, Tuesday 21 July 2009 between 20:00 and 22:00 (BST). You may experience a brief service interruption during this period and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. During this...
Can I remind you all of the above rule thanks ;) :whip:
The news feeds have now been removed, based on the results from the public poll and staff discussion. The news feed threads simply served their purpose of boosting content in forum. All threads with a response were moved over to the new forum...
Did you know that you can follow IBTL on Twitter or join the group on Last.fm or Facebook page? Click the links below now if you so wish..... Note: The facebook is generally aimed at attracting new members, however all current members are...
I've just moved around 5-10 threads from spam to the appropiate forums. Nothing should be posted in spam except meaningless rubbish and idle chat/inside jokes. Any threads about a topic should be posted in the appropiate forum, any threads that...
We'll soon be reaching a landmark post number hopefully in the next couple of days, and so a big thank you to all you guys for helping this forum work and achieve that amount of posts in such a short space of time! Remember, if you have any feedback...
I hope you are all enjoying our new wiki. Just to get the ball rolling a bit and to encourage you all to use the wiki, I thought I'd hold a little competition. The wiki relies on you all to add stuff, that is the basis of it. Everyone can edit...
This forum thrives on community integration, new members and old members submitting content. Without members this wouldn't be a community it would be a pointless waste of money and that's something we're trying to avoid. I've noticed a few...
Mobile skin is now available, simply direct your mobile device to: IBTL.CO.UK Looking into a plugin that will automatically recognise if you're on a mobile device or not and change your style accordingly, but for now the different domain...
Hey Guys, We have been working hard in the past few weeks to create a community wiki. The wiki has been set up to document the history of the community and to provide background information for new users and will hopefully be a lot of fun....
Can I please ask that you all read our rules again, especially Bullying is not accepted anywhere on the forum, especially not to some of the extremes that we have experienced recently. We're all supposed to be mature, regardless of...
Please congratulate George on his new moderator position on the forum. George will be our second North American mod, along with Roger to ensure that we have moderators to be covering all time zones.
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